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Private higher education (PHE) has over 50 million students, thus accounting for a third of the world’s enrollment (PROPHE 2016). These are incredibly high figures given that most countries had no PHE at the middle of the last century and many still had little PHE until late in the century or later still. Moreover the private proportional surge has occurred, while public higher education has itself grown globally in absolute terms as never before. The private share of enrollment is now higher globally (32.7%) than it is in the USA (27.5%), the single country with a long and prominent PHE tradition.
The geographical breadth of PHE likewise impresses. In contrast to the situation a quarter century ago, each region is represented, with never less than a 10% private share. The spread reaches to all major subregions(e.g., Southeast Asia, Eastern and Central Europe). PHE thrives now under both...
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Levy, D. (2016). Private Higher Education. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_28-1
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